Do you really even need to use the stock Music app anymore? That’s likely what you’ll be asking yourself after trying out MiniPlayer 2.2 — an update to an already fantastic tweak by MPow and Surenix.

The 2.2 update to MiniPlayer brings a couple of highly desired features to the mix, starting with search. Yes, you can now search your entire music library directly from MiniPlayer’s interface. As if that feature wasn’t enough to appease customers, we’ve also been provided with a new scrubbing ability to navigate to a specific portion of the now playing track.

MiniPlayer was already one of my favorite new jailbreak tweaks before hand, but at this clip, it’s destined to make our top jailbreak tweaks list at the end of the year. Check out the details of the 2.2 update, along with an updated video walkthrough, inside.

The new scrubbing feature appears on MiniPlayer’s main view, directly beneath the song information of the currently playing track. The scrubber stays, even when you bring up the tweak’s transport controls with a single tap. If MiniPlayer was ever going to be considered as a serious replacement for interfacing with the stock Music app, then it absolutely needed this feature. I’m happy to say that the guys pulled it off wonderfully.

The next feature, search, is something I’ve always wanted to appear in MiniPlayer ever since it was first revealed. I never honestly thought that it would be a feature to seriously consider due to the obvious complexities that search brings to the table. I hope I don’t sound overly gushing about this update, but search really is something to behold. It works pretty much flawlessly, and even plays nice with content stored in the cloud via iTunes Match.

The nice thing about the search is that it’s predictive. The search results are displayed in real time and modified as you adjust your query. The search is able to accommodate both song title and album artist. It doesn’t appear that search works for the album name, or any other metadata, but hopefully that will be added in a future update.

If you already own MiniPlayer, then you’ll be happy to know that this is a free update, and it’s available right now via Cydia’s BigBoss repo. If you haven’t already purchased MiniPlayer, then what are you waiting for? If you listen to Music at all on your jailbroken device, then it’s a tweak that I can wholeheartedly recommend and one that I use personally, even when I’m not just testing it out.

If you’re still not convinced, then perhaps this screenshot will convince you?

No, your eyes have not deceived you. That’s Spotify search integration in MiniPlayer. This is a feature that’s not currently in the 2.2 build that just released, but it is very encouraging to see the duo working on such an obvious evolution of their tweak. If they can pull off a Spotify search and make it as good as the search is with the stock Music app, then I can easily see MiniPlayer making it into my top 5 jailbreak tweaks for the year.

What do you think about the MiniPlayer 2.2 update? Better yet, what features would you like to see added to the tweak in the future? Sound off in the comment section below.

Update: Version 2.2.1 has been released, and it brings Spotify search integration. Check it out now, and let us know what you think.

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If MiniPlayer could include spotify to its arsenal, it would be the best tweak of the year.

Jeff

It would definitely be up there.

lemonhead

The video is great finally got the device in the middle ! Perfect =D

Irishbgs

Ok Jeff, what keyboard is that? That is too clean. =D

MrShutEmDown

I agree Jeff, what keyboard is this?

Antzboogie

Quick question I installed this from a different repo to see if it works and it does. I then purchased this tweak to support them and the paid version doesnt work at all but the one from a different one works Im confused I paid it should work better then the free version. Help thanks. I have iPhone 5s.

Disagree – I Think for a tweak of this caliber, with a features that are advancing as fast as they are, it is a good idea to keep sharing them – i know it may seem repetitive but ive been looking for a instant search query tweak for music for days now

jp2002

spotlight? It searches even more than songs.

Beta382

I’m still waiting for the one from Sentry, Sirifl0w, and SmartViperE75 (which was in development before Miniplayer was).

I tried Miniplayer on a friends device for a couple hours (I don’t have it myself, he does), and I don’t like the way it handles being moved (i.e. when moving it grows, there is no axis lock for movement, on the iPhone it doesn’t force centering while moving, and instead snaps to center after moving it). It doesn’t feel like I thought it should, and since the movement across the screen is at the core of this tweak, it prevents me from thinking of this as “high caliber”, especially when these oversights exist when such a prolific designer is behind it. (I prefer the movement mechanism shown in Sentry’s initial concept for this tweak).

MPow

I think you have tried an old version, it force center on iPhone and animation and movement is improved every version, maybe try it

Beta382

In watching the video in this post, it appears to still not stay centered when moving. I see that it forces center after you let go of it (which happened in the version my friend had that I tried), but while it is in motion, you are able to move it off center, even when dragging up/down (when you let go it snaps back to the center, as expected).

Making it lock the movement axis once in motion would prevent this from happening, and in my opinion would vastly improve the feel of this tweak (being able to make diagonal movements – i.e. dragging it onto the screen and moving it up at the same time – just feels sloppy). Maybe run that by Surenix and see what he thinks?

MPow

you can move around the screen. If you move too left or too rigth it is collapsed in the edge, if not when you release your finger the player is moved to the center, so it will be always at the center if you don’t collapse it

Surenix

MiniPlayer snaps to center on iPhone because of the screen size + MiniPlayer size. Also, because everything on the OS is on a fine grid, we thought it would be appropriate.

We allow the users the freedom to move the MiniPlayer left and right so there’s that “feel” where if you do decide to collapse it to the side, it’ll look “live”. And if you don’t feel like moving it to the side but want to take a peak at what’s over on the left, you can have that option because once you’re done looking at whatever it is you want to look at, letting go of the MiniPlayer will snap it back in place (center).

We are always trying to find the best solution to please the users and sometimes you can’t win them all. Thank you for your honest opinion.

Jeff

Yes, because I enjoy this tweak. I share what I enjoy.

bw00ds

I respect your opinion, but I feel that this is a news website. And the new features are more than minor. It’s not a complete review of the tweak, just a review of the update. And one doesn’t have to read it. I appreciate this site that he does for our good without compensation. And he does it for fun–he can do what he wants..

(And I see that you have also additionally contributed to the discussion, so there must be enough to talk about here. Just sayin’…)

Jonathan

Each update has brought something worth noting. It’s come a long way since it was first released and is definitely one the best and most beautifully put together tweak of the year. If you cant see that i’m sorry but credit needs to be given when due.

Mathi_11

Tweaks like this make me wanna have my jailbreak back 🙁

Kenny Woodard

Am I the only one who doesn’t use the stock music player? I use a third party app called ” Free Music Downloader ” or something similar. Somehow it makes the music quality better and it brings out the bass for my Sol Republic headphones. Plus it’s free, customizable music.

MPow

MiniPlayer is compatible with all apps that can be controlled in background, quick search only for Music and (soon/tomorrow) Spotify

they should remove double tap for changing color, it’s annoying, and add option to lock player to one place, on iphone 4 its just to small (but perfect) and I’m changing color every time I want to use volume slider

Surenix

To access volume slider, you tap and hold the album art. Then you tap and hold the knob. I don’t understand why you’d have to double tap the knob?

I mean, you might be missing the volume knob once but if you try again, the gesture won’t recognize as a second tap.

Rith Kiri

why i have boot loop when install MiniPlayer 2.2. MiniPlayer 2.1 work well.

Surenix

MiniPlayer 2.2.1 is out now, should fix that.

bw00ds

Jeff, I see from the video that you have at least two Japanese music artists. What’s the deal? I find that very interesting! (I, myself, am Japanese and love many of their musicians.)

Jeff

I’m a japanophile and a j-pop (old school) connoisseur.

bw00ds

Way cool! I’ll try to send you some links to some of my favorite groups. How did you get interested in this kind of music?

rosssimpson

Is there any way I can get the music player to like, hide but then when I say tap on the status bar it shows again?

Surenix

You might have to use Activator for this.

rosssimpson

I’ve sussed it! Thanks man!

Surenix

You’re welcome

mrloko

Any hacks for spotify?

jp2002

What do you mean by hacks?

mrloko

I mean free premium account lol

jp2002

lol i have made a hack that enables scrubbing though with unlimited skips:-)

No, I prefer to buy premium account. I think musician’s work should be respected

jp2002

Even if its hacked Spotify would still pay the artist. So if you wanna support spotify and not hit their business, then you shouldn’t hack.

Surenix

Cyueue only works within Music.app. So, no. We are looking into something though 😉

MrShutEmDown

thanks!

iViperzLTD

I’m still bugged by whether this conflicts a lot with Zephyr D:
I don’t want to buy it not knowing if it does or not
Could someone let me know?

Surenix

Works totally fine with Zephyr 🙂

iViperzLTD

Ah that’s great to hear, before I consider buying it, I have another question and I hope anyone could support me by answering.
Does miniplayer interfere with Zephyr? Eg, if I were in an app, but wanted to swipe the miniplayer out, it would go over onto another app rather snapping the player onto my screen

MPow

If you are in an app and you have zephyr swipe will change app and you can tap the player to uncollapse

iViperzLTD

Many thanks, just bought the tweak, loving it already! 🙂

Surenix

Thank you kindly for your support 🙂

mrloko

Can we pirate ?? Haha just kidding bro

Damian W

I think Jeff is doing the right thing of going over the new features in already reviewed tweak. Since this update is not just bug fixes, but actually it adds two new features the jailbreaking community did not have before. It is the right thing to let people know these features are out there. More people will buy the tweak and we have better chances to see more features in the new updates.

Saúl Ga

“Adds two new features the jailbreaking community did not have before”

Are you kidding?
The scrubbing feature is already in FoldMusic and Velox, and the search option is in Pluck or in the spotlight

Damian W

Are you kidding me man? Show me the tweak with movable scrubbing across the system and search song . There’s is none! These two features alone in this tweak make it worth buying it

Saúl Ga

Not together, but those two features separately arent new.
There’s a notification center widget called NCMusicGestures, it has the scrubbing feature so that pretty much covers the part of “tweak with movable scrubbing across the system”
And pluck, using and activator action, covers the part of searching across the system too.
I know it’s not the same as having it all in one but in the way you stated it in your first comment not necessarily have to be together, or maybe I just misunderstood it… Well either way… Peace! 🙂

Damian W

Oh well. I meant these two features put together with mini player look just fantastic. No other tweak gave me a similar experience like this. However, thanks for bringing up similar tweaks. I will definately look more into them. I checked pluck, but I thought it applies only to the lockscreen. And in case of ncmusicgestures I thought is just another player for nc only this time with gestures.

jp2002

Of course scrubbing just works for the music.app. Apple is gay and they don’t have a scrubbing feature in their remote control events. hence need to wait till apple updates their remote control events or wait for some great hacker to bring in that feature.

Steven Miller

That stinks! I only use spotify for music. Oh well, I still love miniplayer!!

Matt Taylor

On the iPad, is there and option to uncollapse the mini player in an “emblem” notification like position rather than center? Thanks

Surenix

Hm… something we’ll look at.

Matt Taylor

Ok cool, thanks! Looks strange shooting to center on the iPad!

Nachie Samuels

Can you make the search and seeker work with other music apps from the appstore and jeff just say the name of the keyboard

Jonathan

altkeyboard by sentry but is not released yet. Follow him for updates

Rey Mata

I prefer Rdio but this feature would probably have me start using Spotify instead. A big thanks to the team involved for working on improving this tweak.

EdouardH17

Same for me.

EdouardH17

My iPhone 5 goes on safe mode endlessly.. I fear there may be a conflict with another tweak I have. Any guess ?

I paid for the app, I expect it to work.

MPow

If you are on 6.0.x wait the, update already submitted
If you are on 6.1.x email me

WolfgangHoltz

Hahaha 11 releases in one month think you have to wait at least 30 releases before this program can go from beta status to RC status. And real developers don’t charge you to test their beta status code.

MPow

11 Release in which we add many Feature every time (not only bug fix) try read the changelog, user love any new feature, and yes I had request to try a beta and the people was always happy to help me. If you don’t like new versions use 2.0 , is stable, if you don’t like just don’t use.

WolfgangHoltz

Of course it’s up to me to use or not.
And it’s also my right to write criticism on a product I think developed from immature kids. But life is a learning process and we all have to start somewhere.
And 11 releases in one month is in my opinion little too much considering it’s a paid tweak/application. I’m aware it’s impossible to find all bug’s but in three times you had more than one update in one day and one time three updates in one day.
This give the looks it’s not a mature product and should have this information so the customer is aware of what they buy. Especially when there is no try before you buy.

MPow

I have the list of updates 3 minor update all the other are mayor updates with new feature so if you say a day I have released 3 update that’s happened one time other time are new features not bug fix . Bye kid

WolfgangHoltz

Wow I’m impressed that you seem to be able to both read and repeat my previous post.

Saúl Ga

I think the double tap to change color feature should be removed… It takes forever to show the music controls, or make the controls appear just like Sentry’s concept

X8QU4Ot

Anyone know how to install MiniPlayer without Activator?

Surenix

There’s absolutely no way but if you don’t use Activator after the installation, it won’t affect your device’s performance or battery life at all.